Bottle and jar stopper and fastener



(ModeL) E. HAAS.

BOTTLE AND JAR STOPPER AND PASTENBB. No. 313,588. Patented Mar. 10,1885.1

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EDWIN I-IAAS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOTTLE AND JAR STOPP ER AND FASTENER.

.BPBCIFECATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,588, dated March10, 1885.

Appication filed September :6, 1884.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, EDWIN HAAs, a citizen of the United States, residingat Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBottle and Jar Stoppers and Fasteners, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to that class of bottle and jar covers orstoppers in which the stoppers are connected to a swinging bail by alocking-lever, and to that particular description of bottle-stoppers inwhich the locking lever is confined in limit to substantially the areaof the upper face of the stopper and is adapted to operate between saidupper face and the bailpassing over the same; and the invention consistsof certain features of construction hereinafter described, andspecifically set forth in the claims.

Referring to thedrawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a portion of abottle provided with my improved stopper and fastener, the same beingrepresented as closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view representing parts incentral vertical section, and the stopper, lever, and bail in positionto be sprung away from the mouth of the bottle. Fig. 3 is a sideelevation of the locking-lever detached. Fig. 4: is a similar view ofthe metallic part of the stopper proper.

Like letters indicate like partsin all the figures.

To the neck of a bottle, A, is secured, in the usual manner, aneck-wire, B, having formed therein eyes B, for the reception of thebail G, which in this instance is bent outwardly to form trunnions O,which project from the bottle, these parts being of the usualconstruction. The bail passes through alocking-lever, D, which ispivotally connected to the stopper. The lever D is formed in one piece,and comprises a thumb-piece, D, a body portion, D", having two of itssides, D D", arranged at a trifle less than a right angle to each other,projecting bearing-lugs D which may he in cross-section cylindrical or V-shaped, as shown in Fig. 3, and a rib, D, perforated, as at D, for thepassage of the bail therethrough.

The advantages secured by constructing the lockinglever as describedcomprises such a shape and disposition of the parts that the le (Modemgreatest strain, and the upper inclination given to the side D relativeto the side permits the passage of the bail beyond the straight linepassing from its pivot through the pivot of the locking-lever to thepoint of the pivotal attachment of the bail to said lever, whereby thestopper is locked in a closed position. The stopper comp rises,twopiecesthe metallic cap-piece or plug E and the rubber stopper or washerF. The cap-piece or plug E comprises a disk, E, havingdiametrically-opposite pairs of lugs, E, a cylindrical. shoulder orwasher, E", on the lower surface of the dish E, and a projectingcylinder, E having notches extending from its lower end to ward thewasher E By the construction de scribed this part maybe cast in a singlepiece. in which case the lugs E and the cylinder E are cast straight-'ihe former as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, and the latter as shown indotted lines, Fig. 4- -so that by anysuitaole too having a Lil-shapedrecess the said lugs E may be bent overthe pivots D ot' thelocking-lever D, and so that by any suitable tool the prongs E, formedby notching the cylinder E", as described, may be bent outwardly, sothat a properly-recessed rubber stopper may be secured to the cap-piece, as hereinafter described. In this instanee the rubber cap-pieceis centrally recessed and out under, as at F, so that it may be buttonedonto the cylinder E". The face, and it may be other portions of therubber stopper F, is coated, as at G, with paraftine, to prevent contactof the contents of the bottle with the rubber.

This being the construct-ion, the operation is as follows: To withdrawthe stopper a thumb is placed againstthe lever D, and said lever isoscillated upon its pivots D", carrying the bail over said pivots, when,by the resiliency of the rubber, said lever is brought to the positionshown in Fig. 2, where its face D rests upon the cap-piece or plug E.Aifurther movement of the bail, and a partial rotation thereon of thestopper, removes it completely from the mouth of the bottle. A reversalof these movements serves to close the bottle and lock the stopper inthe mouth thereof.

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3. The combination of the bail G, pivotal] y secured to the bottle, thelever D, having the 1 lugs Di-the cast-metal cap-piece E, comprising acylinder having the bent prongs E and the rubber stopper F,substantially as shown and described. 7

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 20 presence of twowitnesses.

EDWIN HAAS.

Witnessesr .J. F. TURNER,

THEO. H. MCGALLA.

